... to Babylon;
when it so happened that our city was desolate during the interval of seventy
years, until the days of Cyrus king of Persia. He then says, "That
this Babylonian king conquered Egypt, and Syria , and Phoenicia, and Arabia,
and exceeded in his exploits all that had reigned before him in Babylon
and Chaldea." A little after which Berosus subjoins what follows in
his History of Ancient Times. I...